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Founder & Chief Pondering Officer @ ZATO Marketing

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Kirk Williams is the Founder & Chief Pondering Officer at ZATO Marketing. He has been named one of the Top 25 Most Influential PPCers in the world by PPC Hero 6 years in a row (2016-2021), has written articles for many industry publications, including Shopify, Moz, PPC Hero, Search Engine Land, and Microsoft.**

**Kirk is a frequent guest on digital marketing podcasts and webinars and an avid conference speaker, having traveled around the world to talk about Paid Search (especially Shopping Ads).

In 2023, Kirk had the privilege of speaking at the TEDx Billings on one of his many passions, Stop the Scale: Redefining Business Success.

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Author - Kirk Williams
PAID SEARCH STRATEGY

Google’s August 17 Bidding Change: What Advertisers Need to Do Now

Starting August 17, 2026, Google is changing how campaigns running Target CPA and Target ROAS strategies behave once they’re limited by budget. Per Google’s Help Center, campaigns that are “Limited by budget” on Target CPA, Target ROAS, or Target CPC for Demand Gen “will more consistently perform toward your bid target, including when you make budget adjustments.”

Author - Kirk Williams
PAID SEARCH STRATEGY

How to Protect Smart Bidding From Spam Conversions in Google Ads

Recently, a lead-gen agency that mostly works with home builders shared this with one of our salespeople: a bot finds one search term overnight, and by morning a community has around 50 new conversions: